The Devil's Looking-Glass

Continuing the pursuit of e-fame and e-fortune, I've started scanning my old Methuen novel The Devil's Looking-Glass (proud winner of a Betty Trask award for Romantic or Traditional Fiction) so that I can turn it into a Kindle book. This involves scanning the printed novel, page by page, then putting the file through SimpleOCR, unscrambling the inevitable misreadings, correcting punctuation, and trying to get the thing to settle down on the page and make sense. Repeat 180-odd times until the job is done. But it's still quicker (just) than typing the whole lot in again. For those who remember such things, it was originally written on a BBC Micro computer belonging to my old college, circa 1983, and nothing from those days has survived in electronic form, or at least in any I can read. Drafts on a Remington Noiseless (ha, ha) typewriter, which sounded like a pneumatic drill three streets away. Oh, and three carbons. Gosh, it seems a long time ago.